English verb: analyze | |||
1. | analyze (cognition) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | ||
Samples | Analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Analyze the evidence in a criminal trial. Analyze your real motives. | ||
Examples | Sam and Sue analyze the movie | ||
Synonyms | analyse, canvas, canvass, examine, study | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | anatomize, appraise, assay, audit, check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, compare, consider, diagnose, diagnose, follow, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look into, look into, name, reexamine, review, screen, scrutinise, scrutinize, sieve, sift, survey, survey, suss out, trace, view | ||
2. | analyze (cognition) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | ||
Samples | Analyze a specimen. Analyze a sentence. Analyze a chemical compound. | ||
Synonyms | analyse, break down, dissect, take apart | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | botanise, botanize, parse | ||
Antonyms | synthesise, synthesize | ||
3. | analyze (cognition) break down into components or essential features | ||
Samples | Analyze today's financial market. | ||
Synonyms | analyse | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | factor analyse, factor analyze | ||
4. | analyze (cognition) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | ||
Samples | I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist. | ||
Synonyms | analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | care for, treat | ||
Domain category | psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology | ||